Never liked it. It breaks the flow of action and a lot of time gets the fighter hurt worse than if the fight had been left to go its course.

If refs are stopping fights too early then that should be addressed rather than changing to rules to accomodate poor refs.

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Originally Posted by |A|C|S|

thing about a standin 8 count is it can stop someone whos hurt about to get knocked out then they can recover but then they will take more punishment which can do major damage because the fight woulda been stopped if there was no standin 8

These are the reasons why I don't like it. I also think it would make refs more trigger happy, stepping in all the time.

Absolutely. I can understand the need for rules to be standardised, but in this case it isn't going to affect the way people fight, it will only prevent terrible stoppages we see far too often. A loss is very damaging to a fighter's future earning potential and the idea that Enzo has to live with a completely unjustified L on his record because of a mistake out of his control is a big problem.

I understand standing 8s for occasions when a fighter gets hit by a punch that would have put them down but being trapped between the opponent and the ropes they get held up. This can lead to them taking a lot of damage that they wouldnt have taken if they had been in the centre of the ring and just gone down. This is the ONLY occasion in my opinion a standing 8 should be used, when the fighter would have gone down but was held up by the ropes.

This was not the case in the enzo fight that was just poor officiating which should be fought against tooth and nail and is a rot at the heart of our sport.